My first instinct was to show one simple count. Then I ran into a problem: writers usually care about visible characters, while browser form limits can use UTF-16 code units. A draft can look fine in one counter and still fail a form field.
I m considering two approaches:
Show only a simple count until someone selects a target like web form .
Show both counts from the start, with a short explanation.
I lean toward the first option because most people should not need Unicode terminology while writing.
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